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Pick-up truck with cocaine parts found in Mexico

Other News Materials 13 February 2009 01:45 (UTC +04:00)

Mexican authorities found a pick-up truck whose running-boards, fenders and bumpers were made of cocaine base and fiberglass, dpa reported.

The public prosecutor's office said Thursday that the vehicle was found in the port of Manzanillo, in the western Mexican state of Colima, in a container that had come in from Buenaventura, in Colombia.

The truck, a 1990 model, had number plates of Mexico state - adjoining the capital - and was carrying a total of 74.4 kilogrammes of cocaine, according to the authorities.

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